Enlightenment Quotes

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Directions:
In the discussion area for this page, complete the following assignment:
1) Select two quotes from the list provided. Read them and think for a few minutes before writing.
2) Create a new thread in the discussion area. In the subject area, put your class period and your last name and then the word "quotes" (ex A-1 Johnson Quotes)
3) In the message area, rewrite the first quote and answer the following questions about it-
  • Who is the author/speaker?
  • What topic is the author addressing in the quote (government, religion, society, morality, ect)?
  • What does the author mean by this quote. This answer should take you 3-6 sentences.
  • Why do you like this quote?
4) Skip a line and rewrite the second quote you have selected. Answer the following questions about it-
  • Who is the author/speaker?
  • What topic is the author addressing in the quote (government, religion, society, morality, ect)?
  • What does the author mean by this quote. This answer should take you 3-6 sentences.
  • Why do you like this quote?
5) Sign the assignment by writing your first and last name at the end.

Quotes:

By Edmund Burke

  • “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”
  • “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
  • “Education is the cheap defense of nations”
  • “Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”

By Ben Franklin
  • "Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God.“
  • "Yes, we must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.“
  • “Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security”
  • “The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
  • “Without Freedom of thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of speech”
  • “Where liberty is, there is my country”

By Thomas Jefferson
  • “The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”
  • “Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”
  • “No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.”
  • “I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another”
  • “Every generation needs a new revolution.”
  • “All authority belongs to the people”
  • “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

By Montesquieu
  • “To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”
  • “The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy”
  • “The less men think, the more they talk”
  • “In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.”
  • “An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.”
  • “Useless laws weaken necessary laws”
  • “It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.”
  • “A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.”
  • “There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
  • “Liberty is the right to do what the law permits”

By Voltaire
  • "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him“
  • “Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
  • “The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
  • “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
  • “The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
  • “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets”
  • “Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too”
  • “It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”
  • “All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws”
  • “It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”
  • “It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.”

By Rousseau
  • “Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they.”
  • ‘The noblest work in education is to make a reasoning man, and we expect to train a young child by making him reason! This beginning at the end; this is making an instrument of a result. If children understood how to reason they would not need to be educated.
  • “I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery”
  • “Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?”
  • “To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties”
  • “Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.”
  • “As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me?' the State may be given up for lost”